Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 20:36:51 -0400 From: John Pustaver Subject: MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Software Quality Group Meeting, Wednesday, Oct 13, 1999, Getting Results with Technical Reviews and Inspections Through Web Based Automation Meeting of the Software Quality Group of New England Meetings of the Software Quality Group are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the facilities of Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below). MEETING DAY & DATE: Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1999 TIME: 6:15 PM HEADLINE: Getting Results with Technical Reviews and Inspections Through Web Based Automation SPEAKER: Michael Sowers, Executive Vice President of Software Development Technologies MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@swquality.com LOCATION: Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below) DESCRIPTION: Michael Sowers will share his experiences in implementing technical reviews and inspections both manually and with automated tools and will discuss the pragmatic considerations of each approach. Michael has over two decades of experience in the engineering and quality fields with extensive experience in requirements gathering, defect prevention techniques, defect containment approaches, software verification and validation practices, software engineering methodologies, assessment practices and pre/post release measurement systems. He has developed and lead R&D and operations teams from 15 to 150 persons in Japan, the United Kingdom, Holland, India and the USA, is an adjunct faculty member for the National Graduate School of Quality, and serves as Sr. Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. NEXT MEETING NOTE: The next meeting will be held on Nov. 10, 1999: Anna Allison , Managing for Success: The High Quality Equation. 1999 Software Quality Group Calendar Oct. 13, 1999: Mike Sowers, Getting results with Technical Reviews and Inspections through web based automation. Nov. 10, 1999: Anna Allison , Managing for Success: The High Quality Equation Dec. 8, 1999: Test Automation Panel Discussion Jan 12, 2000: Chuck Connell, Turning Around Software Projects That Are Off Track (tentative title) Feb 9, 2000: Bob Beach, SQA Engineering: The basics you need to start working with when you are all alone in the lab. Mar 8, 2000: (tentative date) Valerie Nolan, Configuration Managment topic TBD Apr 12, 2000: (tentative) Meaningful Metrics (or Tailoring the CMM) May 10, 2000: (tentative) Managing the relationships between QA, Dev & Software Product Management Jun 14, 2000: (tentative) EXCEED and other rapid application development models July 12, 2000: Annual Hot Topics Night The Software Quality Group holds monthly meetings. Topics covered at these meetings have included software testing, inspections, ISO 9000, metrics configuration management, and demonstrations of vendor QA tools. There is no charge. The Software Quality Group meets monthly at 6:15pm on the second Wednesday of the month at the facilities of Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA. Driving directions: >From 128/95 Take the Rt. 3 exit heading north (not the Middlesex Turnpike exit if you're coming form the south). From Rt. 3N take the first exit (which is Rt. 62 -Bedford Ave). Turn east toward Burlington. Approximately 0.3 mile after the interchange, turn right onto Network Drive, which leads to the campus on your right. Take the second drive off of Network Drive into the Sun parking lot. Park in the visitor lot and enter the lobby opposite the Sun clock tower. Information about future meetings will be available on the Software Quality Page at http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver. To be on the email distribution list, send a note to pustaver@swquality.com. The Software Quality Group is cosponsored by Sun Microsystems and the ASQ Software Division and all are welcome. Directors of the Software Quality Group are John Pustaver, Region I Councilor, American Society for Quality, Software Division and Paul Ratty, Sun Microsystems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Software Quality Consulting voice:978-443-4254 fax:978-443-6052 pustaver@swquality.com http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver